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NHS employers are reminded that the only self-employed individuals who have access to the NHS Pension Scheme are General Practitioners, General Dental Practitioners, Ophthalmic Medical Practitioners, and non-GP Providers. Any other individual…

In Pensions Schemes newsletter 112  (31 July 2019) HMRC have asked schemes to remind members who have exceeded the Annual Allowance for 2018/19 and have an Annual Allowance charge that the charge must be declared on their that they have exceeded…

Following the article published in July, we have received a number of queries from employers and we felt that further clarification was necessary. Checking the payable date Opted out less than 5 years ago Member has opted out less…

The Department of Health and Social Care is to open a new consultation on revised proposals for flexibilities in the NHS Pension Scheme. More details can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs-pensions-for-senior-clinicians-new-…

The Stakeholder Engagement Team, working with the Digital Project Team, have been continuing the rollout of our new financial information collection service, MCP. Over 30% of employers are now on-boarded to the service.  If you have been sent an on-…

For terminal ill health cases, an AW341 application form is required along with the AW33E. The team have recently noticed an increase in terminal ill health estimates being requested where the commuted incapacity box has been ticked in error to…

NHS Pensions is seeing an increase in the amount of retirement benefit claim forms (AW8) being signed by the incorrect employing authorities. If the member is a GP in England all GP pensions are administrated by Primary Care Support England (PCSE)…

Any requests for a GMP test need to be sent via email to gmptestrequest@nhs.net When requesting a GMP test, the following information is required:- •           Intended retirement date •           Notional Whole time Total Pensionable pay figure…